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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. Apache Drill vs. OpenEdge vs. Snowflake

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageApplication development environment with integrated database management systemCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaltibase.comdrill.apache.orgwww.progress.com/­openedgewww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdrill.apache.org/­docsdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAltibaseApache Software FoundationProgress Software CorporationSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release20141999201219842014
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231.20.3, January 2023OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononoyesyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.ANSI SQL-92SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyes infoclose to SQL 92yes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Java
C++Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnostored procedures and stored functionsuser defined functionsyesuser defined functions
Triggersyesyesnoyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4yes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesDepending on the underlying data sourcenono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDepending on the underlying data sourceUsers and groupsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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